Chapter 183 The host of the foster mother worm turned out to be her?
Lin Ruzhen grabbed Lin Qingyue's wrist viciously and raised the dagger to slash her wrist.
Suddenly, two slender jade fingers accurately clamped the cold blade.
"Have you had enough?" Lin Qingyue's voice was covered with a smile, but it made Lin Ruzhen and Dongfang Yan's hearts tighten.
"Crack!" With a slight exertion of force from his fingers, the blade shattered like brittle ice.
Lin Ruzhen stumbled back a few steps, her face as pale as paper, and she spoke incoherently: "You, you're not... How could it be? Are you pretending?"
Lin Qingyue sneered, "With your despicable tactics, you still think you can show off your skills before an expert? If I don't cooperate with you, how can I know what drama you are singing?"
Dongfang Yan was stunned at first, and then a barely perceptible trace of relief flashed across his eyes.
He turned to Lin Ruzhen and demanded sharply, "Lin Ruzhen, you told me earlier that your powder is only effective against evil creatures. So, she isn't the evil spirit you're talking about?"
Lin Ruzhen explained anxiously, "No, no, no, Your Highness, listen to me! Although I don't know why the powder is ineffective on her, I know she is definitely not my sister! She is an evil ghost who stole my sister's body!"
Dongfang Yan looked at Lin Ruzhen, then at Lin Qingyue, and for a moment he was unsure who to trust.
Lin Qingyue sat up from the couch, brushed off the dust on her skirt, and said with a faint smile:
"Lin Ruzhen, if you had just retreated to the mountains, I might have stopped arguing with you about all the grudges we've had. But you just show up again, seeking death, huh?"
She shook the broken blade in her hand: "Tell me, how do you want to die?"
Lin Ruzhen turned around and wanted to run, but Lin Qingyue waved her sleeves and the door of the hall slammed shut.
Lin Ruzhen was completely panicked and knelt at Dongfang Yan's feet, begging, "Your Highness, please save me! For the sake of me being pregnant with your child, please save me! The one in my belly is your eldest son!"
Dongfang Yan ignored her and just stared at Lin Qingyue. "Tell me, are you the real Lin Qingyue?"
Lin Qingyue smiled faintly: "Instead of worrying about those things, it's better to think about your fate."
Dongfang Yan said, "Why don't you dare answer my question directly? So... you really aren't her? I should have discovered it long ago, I should have discovered it long ago... It's you. You took advantage of my feelings for you and blinded my eyes!"
“Tell me, the real Lin Qingyue, she…she…”
"Of course she is no longer alive."
"Alas..." Lin Qingyue sighed slowly, "I promised the original owner that I wouldn't kill you. But now, since you already know everything, I have no choice but to break my promise..."
The blood-red oil-paper umbrella spun open with a "swish", like a flower blooming in the turbid world.
The bell under the umbrella rib turned into a sharp blade, approaching Dongfang Yan with a murderous aura.
Dongfang Yan subconsciously wanted to draw his sword to resist, but found that he could not move his whole body, as if all his strength had been drained away, and he could not even move a finger.
The air around him brought a strong sense of solemnity, which made his heart beat faster and he felt real fear.
He wanted to shout loudly for the people outside to come and help him, but his voice was stuck in his throat and he couldn't utter a syllable.
It turns out that this is Lin Qingyue’s true strength!
When they wanted to kill him, he was as powerless as an ant.
It was not until this moment that Dongfang Yan finally realized how terrifying Lin Qingyue was.
Just when Lin Qingyue was about to take action, "bang——" the door was kicked open, and Dongfang Qi appeared at the door, with more than a dozen guards from the palace lying in a mess behind him.
Blood was still dripping from his sword, and his usually gentle and calm face was filled with tension.
As the door opened, the murderous aura in the hall instantly dissipated. The Netherworld Umbrella also lost its hostility and returned obediently to Lin Qingyue's hands, looking like an ordinary oil-paper umbrella.
When Dongfang Qi entered, the first thing he saw was Lin Qingyue, reclining on the Arhat couch, clutching the red umbrella. A hint of coldness still lingered in her eyes, but her aura had softened, as if the sharp edge from earlier had never appeared.
"Yueyue!" Dongfang Qi stepped into the door and was about to check if she was okay.
Dongfang Yan, who had escaped death, suddenly grabbed Dongfang Qi's arm and shouted, "She's a monster! She's not the original Lin Qingyue at all..."
"Bang!" Dongfang Qi hurriedly closed the door of the hall, locking out the guards of the Xuanjing Division who followed him and his own men.
And Dongfang Yan kept saying:
"Dongfang Qi, we were all deceived by her. The original Lin Qingyue died a long time ago. She, she is..."
Suddenly, Dongfang Yan's voice stopped. He lowered his head in disbelief and saw that the sword in the prince's hand had pierced his chest.
Blood rolled out in large amounts, wetting the python robe on Dongfang Yan's body.
"Prince, you...you..." Dongfang Yan fell down softly, his eyes suddenly wide open, and he was still full of doubts until his death.
Lin Qingyue was obviously afraid that the prince would know her identity, so why did the prince want to kill her to silence her after she exposed it?
Lin Qingyue was indeed a little surprised.
Dongfang Qi slowly drew out his sword and wiped the blood off the sword with an expressionless face. When he raised his head again, he had regained his usual gentle and jade-like appearance.
He said gently, "Yueyue, I'm here to save you."
"Oh, right..." Dongfang Qi's gaze suddenly fell on Lin Ruzhen again, "There's one more. Looks like I need to polish my sword one more time."
Lin Ruzhen, who had watched everything, trembled and crawled out using her hands and feet, muttering, "Mad men, you are all crazy!"
"You are the crazy one." Lin Qingyue flashed and appeared at the door, blocking Lin Ruzhen's way.
Lin Ruzhen said: "Please...please forgive me...I will never dare to...never again..."
Lin Qingyue smiled: "Don't worry, I won't kill you for now. Because of your big belly."
Dongfang Qi then discovered that Lin Ruzhen was pregnant: "Is she pregnant with Dongfang Yan's child?"
Lin Qingyue scoffed, "How is that possible? If I'm not mistaken, the mother of the Flying Corpse Silkworm should be inside."
Dongfang Qi was surprised: "So, this Lin Ruzhen is the host of the foster mother worm? Doesn't that mean she is..."
He remembered that Lin Qingyue had said yesterday that the larvae only eat the internal organs of rotten corpses, while the female larvae are the complete opposite and eat the internal organs of living people.
At this moment, looking at Lin Ruzhen's slightly bulging belly, it was constantly moving, as if the thing inside sensed the danger and wanted to escape.
Lin Ruzhen rolled on the ground in pain, shouting, "Good baby, don't torture mother! Be good, or mother can't bear it!"
The thing in the belly seemed to have the same sense of connection between mother and child, and after hearing what Lin Ruzhen said, it actually stopped making noise.
Lin Ruzhen stroked her belly and said, "What a good baby."
Lin Qingyue said: "What's in your belly is not a fetus at all, but a monster!"
This instantly angered Lin Ruzhen, and she loudly retorted, "No, this is my baby! He's also the eldest son of the Prince of Jin's Mansion! If you hadn't taken my position as the Princess, he would have been the eldest son!"
She lowered her eyes and saw Dongfang Yan lying in a pool of blood. She panicked and couldn't help but beg:
"I won't tell you anything! As long as you forgive me, I will never tell anyone your secret. Prince Jin is dead, and the child in my belly is his only bloodline. If I give birth to the child, he will inherit the throne! From now on, I will be the prince's mother. I can help you. You can do anything you want me to do for you!"
Lin Qingyue looked at her crazy appearance and felt that she deserved it.
She raised her hand and waved, and Lin Ruzhen rolled her eyes and fell asleep.
Lin Qingyue took a few steps towards Dongfang and asked, "When did you know?"
Dongfang Qi's action of killing Dongfang Yan just now was obviously to help her conceal her identity. If so, he must have seen through everything.
"A long time ago," Dongfang Qi said, "probably since I was a little girl, I knew you had an extraordinary background."
"Aren't you afraid?" Lin Qingyue raised an eyebrow. "My origins are so unknown, I could be possessed by some evil spirit, intent on wreaking havoc on the world."
"You are not." Dongfang Qi said firmly, "Although I don't know your true origins, I am sure that you would never do anything like killing someone and taking over their body."
"Are you so sure?" Lin Qingyue chuckled. "I never said I was a good person."
"You are." Dongfang Qi looked at her with a persistent and firm gaze.
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